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Film Review: Snuff (A Documentary About Killing on Camera).

This is actually just a film review. It’s of a commercially distributed mainstream film. The film is a documentary that addresses the question as to whether snuff films exist. The answer that is provided is “probably” but it stops short of proving such films exist.
I’ll tell you exactly why I am writing this review. I’ve tried to write about a number of different kinds of subject matter here, and the one blog entry that has gotten the most hits is the one entitled Raped and Impregnated by a Monster Back in the 80’s part 2, in which I review the films Inseminoid and Humanoids from the Deep. This review also referenced the existence of the Japanese “Tentacle Hentai” which are all those weird Japanese porn videos of women being raped by creatures with tentacles. Most of the hits on that blog entry are from people that appear to be looking for images of rape and impregnation by aliens and monsters. I didn’t create such images- I referenced that this was a popular theme in 80’s horror film and mentioned the existence of the Japanese animated pornography about it. I made fun of the subject. I mocked the film Inseminoid. But it got hits, and it got my name out there in a big way. That’s only one little niche market of sexual perversity though. It gets hits and hits that means publicity, and the hits keep coming. However, since that audience is limited, I’m going to try and come up with something else that will get lots of hits. I think people looking for snuff flicks might work.
Snuff: A Documentary About Killing on Camera is a documentary film that deals with the subject. Snuff films are films of murders made for enjoyment, in particular sexual enjoyment, for commercial consumption. The existence of snuff flicks is debated since there has never been a snuff film by strict definition publically made available or publically recorded. M15 caught the Russian mobster Dimtri Kuznetsov on wiretap discussing the sale of child pornography of boys being killed. That case is discussed in the documentary by a guy from the adult film industry named Mark L. Rosen. There are also videos of murders done by serial killers like Leonard Lake and Charles Ng, such as the M Lady tapes, some footage of which is included in this documentary. However, those do not constitute a snuff film, because the M Lady Tapes and videos like them were most likely not made for commercial purposes but rather simply as keep sakes by the killers.
They have various people talk about related subjects to the issue of snuff films. The film Cannibal Holocaust, the Guinea Pig videos, and other films thought to contain real snuff footage are discussed in the film. They have people discussing the Faces of Death films with some clips of those. There’s some Abu Gharib footage in the documentary. All of that is actually tangential to the topic.
Any snuff films that might exist would be by their inherent nature black market items. Law enforcement and forensic information about snuff videos could also be classified or gaged. The information given in the documentary suggests that such films are likely to exist. There just isn’t public evidence of such a film existing. Mark L. Rosen also tells a story at the end of the film about being shown a snuff film from the Philippines. It doesn’t look like he’s lying.
That’s about as much information as your going to publically get on the topic by anyone. Someone who knows any more then that is likely to keep that information close to their chest.